Medication errors: an important component of nonadherence to medication in an outpatient population of lung transplant recipients.

S Irani; P Seba; R Speich; A Boehler

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Medication errors: an important component of nonadherence to medication in an outpatient population of lung transplant recipients.

October 3, 2007

Irani S, Seba P, Speich R, et al. Am J Transplant. 2007;7(11):2561-6.

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Unintentional medication errors, including taking the prescribed medication at the wrong dose or time, occurred frequently in lung transplant patients. This finding has been previously documented in transplant patients.

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